Love & Relationships

我不会成为任何一个人,既非坏人也不是好人,既非卑鄙小人也不是正人君子,既非英雄也不是懦夫。如今我在我自己的角落苟且度日,以尖酸与全然无用的安慰自我嘲弄;智者不可能估计成为某种固定的样子;只有愚人才这么做。——杜斯妥也夫斯基,《地下室手记》

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Varela de Mar es un pueblo pequeño y tranquilo. Doscientos treinta y tres habitantes. Una playa que desaparece cuando sube la marea. Un faro abandonado.Por eso Alba no lo visita desde hace cinco años. Bueno, por eso y porque allí fue donde aprendió lo que duele el amor y la herida aún escuece.Sin embargo, en Varela también está Pelayo, su abuelo, que ha comenzado a olvidar y que ahora la necesita. Y también los recuerdos que dejó en sus calles cuando se marchó sin mirar atrás. Y Enol. El chico de las conversaciones raras, la obsesión por las mareas y que parece haber nacido en la época equivocada.Un regreso inesperado, un faro lleno de secretos y dos historias inacabadas que, quizá, se merecen la oportunidad de un nuevo final.

March 6, 2012Amazon Best Books of the Month, March 2012The legend begins...Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions. Their bond deepens as they grow into young men and become skilled in the arts of war and medicine—much to the displeasure and the fury of Achilles’ mother, Thetis, a cruel sea goddess with a hatred of mortals.When word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, the men of Greece, bound by blood and oath, must lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.Built on the groundwork of the Iliad, Madeline Miller’s page-turning, profoundly moving, and blisteringly paced retelling of the epic